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The one thing that he got completely right though, is that Word is for putting text to paper. Most people's writing never sees paper anymore, and I think that's

The one thing that he got completely right though, is that Word is for putting text to paper. Most people's writing never sees paper anymore, and I think that's why the tool isn't working for them. As far as saving to plain text and copying plain text, those are two different things. Forcing someone to save a file and open it in another application just to paste the text is just plain terrible. I've never had that happen to me though, so maybe he's doing something wrong. I find Word very frustrating to use. I don't feel like I'm using it, I feel like I'm tricking it and at any moment my text will simply change fonts or tab depth or something weird.

dylan62 15y ago
> Forcing someone to save a file and open it in another > application just to paste the text is just plain terrible. That's a general problem with copy/paste, not specific to Word. A great workaround is PureText, which configures WINDOWS+V to paste as text. http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/ http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/
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- tjoff 15y ago
  Just as much a feature. Right click ->paste-as-plain-text is available in chrome, notepad++, Word (don't know if it is available during a right click though) and many many others.
  - baq 15y ago
    word 2010 (actually, all of office 2010) is better than right-click: you paste normally, tap ctrl and then t.
ma2rten 15y ago
Forcing someone to save a file and open it in another application just to paste the text is just plain terrible. I always past and then again copy text into the address bar of my browser or notepad for longer text. Not ideal, but it works.
- maguay 15y ago
  I hit CMD+space, CMD+V, CMD+A, then CMD+X all the time to use OS X' Spotlight text field to stip formatting from text I've copied from the web and other applications. It's far from an elegant solution, but it does work!
  - npongratz 15y ago
    For OS X, you might also consider Shift+Option+CMD+V, which pastes using the formatting of the target document. I have found this does not work for all target applications, however. (PowerPoint is one. Lame.) If you find you always desire to paste without formatting, you can remap CMD+V in OS X: * Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Application Shortcuts * Click the + under the right-hand list to add a shortcut * Application: All; Menu Title: Paste and Match Style; Keyboard Shortcut: type CMD+V Ask MetaFilter's discussion of above: http://ask.metafilter.com/187733/OSX-How-to-copy-plaintext-always-everywhere-without-exception http://ask.metafilter.com/187733/OSX-How-to-copy-plaintext-a...

dylan62 15y ago

> Forcing someone to save a file and open it in another > application just to paste the text is just plain terrible. That's a general problem with copy/paste, not specific to Word. A great workaround is PureText, which configures WINDOWS+V to paste as text. http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/ http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/

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tjoff 15y ago
Just as much a feature. Right click ->paste-as-plain-text is available in chrome, notepad++, Word (don't know if it is available during a right click though) and many many others.
- baq 15y ago
  word 2010 (actually, all of office 2010) is better than right-click: you paste normally, tap ctrl and then t.

ma2rten 15y ago

Forcing someone to save a file and open it in another application just to paste the text is just plain terrible. I always past and then again copy text into the address bar of my browser or notepad for longer text. Not ideal, but it works.

maguay 15y ago
I hit CMD+space, CMD+V, CMD+A, then CMD+X all the time to use OS X' Spotlight text field to stip formatting from text I've copied from the web and other applications. It's far from an elegant solution, but it does work!
- npongratz 15y ago
  For OS X, you might also consider Shift+Option+CMD+V, which pastes using the formatting of the target document. I have found this does not work for all target applications, however. (PowerPoint is one. Lame.) If you find you always desire to paste without formatting, you can remap CMD+V in OS X: * Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Application Shortcuts * Click the + under the right-hand list to add a shortcut * Application: All; Menu Title: Paste and Match Style; Keyboard Shortcut: type CMD+V Ask MetaFilter's discussion of above: http://ask.metafilter.com/187733/OSX-How-to-copy-plaintext-always-everywhere-without-exception http://ask.metafilter.com/187733/OSX-How-to-copy-plaintext-a...